Chapter 1671: delivery of goods

Movit Road, a famous city in the polar mountains, is located in the big valley at the end of the Blade's Edge Canyon. It is not correct to say that it is a valley. It is actually a huge crater. If you want to get in and out of this place, you can only walk except over the mountains. Blade's Edge Canyon and Long Snake Canyon are two mountain stream corridors.
The statues of the city builders Beto and Hillrod stand at the entrances and exits of the two canyon corridors respectively. Two huge statues of more than 30 feet high are carved out of the mountains overlooking the Movit Road City in front of them. Anyone in the building can look up anywhere and see these two statues.
I don't know if the city builders Beto and Hillrod are too good, or the successors of Movit Road City are too incompetent. All in all, after Movit Road City is built, I know today, from the city layout, to the division of streets, and then again. Everything has not changed from the buildings in the neighborhoods. What the city was like when it was built, and what it is still like now, the only change is that the people living in these buildings have changed one after another.
The overall structure of Movit Road City is composed of thirty-three concentric circle blocks. Each circle of houses represents a block. The further you go to the center of the city, the smaller the block. The urban layout of Red Clay City in the Middle Kingdom draws on this to a certain extent. The layout and style of the city.
Unlike other cities in the polar mountains, there is no city wall in the city of Movit Road, because the original city builders Beto and Hillrod both believed that if the enemy could climb over the mountains and bring the army to the outside of the city, then it would represent Movit Road has completely lost its ability to resist. It is the same whether to build a city wall or not. It is better to make it easier for attackers to occupy the city and reduce casualties.
No matter what the two city builders thought at the time, their decision not to build the city wall brought Mowett Road a very different status later on.
Just like other parts of the mainland, the cities and towns in the polar mountains are also constantly strife.
Since there is a fight, there is naturally a negotiation to quell the fight. In the past, both sides would choose a deserted hill, and each led a different number of men, which fully showed their distrust of each other.
However, the appearance of Movit Road made the city lords and leaders of various cities in the polar mountains feel that this city without city walls is a suitable neutral area. As long as the city lords of Movit Road ensure mutual safety, the place for various negotiations will be placed It's also very nice here.
At that time, the lord of Mowett Road saw the opportunity here, so he publicly stated that Mowit Road was a permanent neutral zone in the Polar Mountains. The city and the tribe have signed relevant neutrality agreements with them, which has made Movit Road a negotiating city in the polar mountains. Almost all battle negotiations, business negotiations, etc. in the mountains are all carried out on Movit Road. .
It is also because of this special environment that a very special profession has been born in the city of Movit Road, that is, the drafter of negotiation agreements.
As the name suggests, this profession is specially designed to draft agreements for the parties involved in the negotiation, avoiding the overheating of the parties during the negotiation, completely forgetting the direction and content of the negotiation, and also saving the time for the parties to negotiate the conditions and avoiding the negotiation. disputes.
In the beginning, they just drafted the negotiation agreement. Later, they were also responsible for some commercial agreements, and the profession was chaotic from the beginning, and gradually under the intervention of the Movit Road city government, gradually standardized.
In order to become a negotiating agreement drafter, in addition to four years of study at Movit Road City College, you must also pass three vocational assessments. Now, there are only less than 30 officially manufactured negotiating agreement drafters in the entire Movit Road City. There are only one, and at most there are only fifty or so.
There are so few negotiating agreement drafters who need to be responsible for negotiating agreements brought about by so many cities and tribes in the polar mountains. They must be overwhelmed, so some illegal negotiating agreement drafters joined in. , pick up the jobs that the official drafters don't want to do.
Although it is illegal, it does not mean that the ability of these negotiating agreement drafters is really inferior to those of the formal drafters. In fact, all the illegal drafters have completed four years of college education, but their luck is very bad. Well, they failed to pass the three professional assessments, but even so, the various agreements they drafted can still play a role in various negotiations.
Lagrom is such an illegal negotiating agreement drafter. He is not a native of Movit, but he comes from a small tribe in the northern ice cap area of ​​the polar mountains. His tribe was defeated by another large tribe. All of them became slaves, and he was bought by a merchant caravan and taken to Mowett Road.
His master was a good man. Not only did he not mistreat him, but he also taught him all kinds of knowledge and let him hold a position in the chamber of commerce. Before his death, he was worried about his identity and gave him the contract of selling himself back. And the trusteeship gave him a formal freedman status.
After that, the successor of the chamber of commerce did not treat him as well as his master, making things difficult for him everywhere, and finally expelled him from the chamber of commerce. After leaving the chamber of commerce, he used the savings in his hand to enter the vocational school of the negotiating agreement drafter.
He is not really interested in the profession of draftsman. It is entirely because of his background as a slave. Even if he obtains the status of a free citizen, other schools in Movit Road City will not be willing to accept him. Schools allow anyone to read.
Perhaps it was because he himself was not interested in drafters, so he barely finished reading for four years. After three exams, he failed to pass once. In the end, he became a drafter of illegal negotiation agreements.
Because his own drafter's professional ability is too poor, it is difficult for him to grab valuable work from a large number of peers. At most, he can only get some black work that is extremely profitable, dangerous, and requires extra work, and barely makes a living, but It is precisely because he has received a lot of black goods and can complete it perfectly every time, so he has gained some reputation among his peers.
Today, he specially came to the Svenk area on the outermost part of Mowett Road, which was named after the third lord of Mowett Road, Svenk, but the locals of Mowett Road prefer to call this place a beast pen, because almost all the buildings here They are all animal houses.
The reason for this is entirely because those caravans that come to Movit Road will unload their goods here, and then send all kinds of pack animals to the familiar stall owners to take care of them. It is also for this reason that this circle of Even in the coldest times in the city, you can smell the stuffy smell of pack animals and the feces of various pack beasts.
Lagrom seldom came to the animal pen area, because the smell of the animal pen area made him always involuntarily think of his life experience of being locked up with pack animals like animals when he was a child. He has a psychological shadow, and instinctively refuses all kinds of work related to the animal pen.
However, this time, the situation was different. He took the job that he had to go to the animal pen in person, because the person who gave him the job was a big man he could never offend, and the reward from this big man was too tempting. , made him forget all the psychological problems for a while, took the commission in person, and also decided to go on stage to complete this task in person.
The task this time is very simple. It is to pick up a batch of goods, pay the balance, and then deliver the received goods to the designated place to the designated person.
Although the task looks simple, it is actually very dangerous, because he can be sure that the goods are contraband, and he can even guess that the goods should be Certain missionary books of the Church of True God.
For a long time, the mission of the Church of True God has been rejected by the cities in the polar mountains. On the surface, the rulers of the cities in the polar mountains may not attack the missionaries of the Church of True God, but they can create a variety of things for those missionaries. Such troubles, such as making the shops in the city not sell any food and living necessities to the missionaries, etc., and even directly attacking those who are in contact with the church when necessary, or installing charges on these people and sending them to Entering a prison cell, or directly sending someone to assassinate him, in a word, is to erase all signs that the Church of True God might gain a foothold.
The Church of the True God is still so attacked, let alone the Church of the Heretic God. Once there is relevant news, they will directly send people to hunt and kill them, without giving the slightest chance to negotiate.
It is precisely because of this decisive approach that the polar mountains can be said to be a forbidden area for churches until now, and no church has been able to establish a foothold here.
If it were other times to transport contraband such as church missionary books, it would not be a particularly serious crime, but recently, all things related to the church have become taboo in Movit Road City, so this time Lagrom also Feeling a little tricky.
The reason why Movit Road is suddenly so harsh to the people of the church is entirely because of the assassination of the city lord of Movit Road that happened not long ago, and the missionaries of the Church of the True God are said to have also participated in it, and all of them were arrested.
Although the vast majority of the city lords in the polar mountains have now lost most of their power, and only their status has been retained, they still have a lot of influence and are deeply loved by the civilians in the city. Now the city lord has been assassinated. Naturally, they were also angry, and they did not object to the censorship against the church.
In the current situation where the whole people are hostile to the power of the church, if he accidentally exposed this batch of contraband, he, a non-native, will definitely be punished with the most severe punishment, and even losing his head for this is not a problem.
It is precisely because of this seriousness that he personally went into battle from the very beginning. Because he did not know when the smuggled goods would arrive, he specially rented a room in the animal barn and waited here so that the goods would arrive first. Time to take the goods away.
However, what Lagrom could not have imagined was that during the few days he stayed here, although he did not get the batch of contraband, he unexpectedly received several orders, helping a few temporary caravans and local businesses. The chamber of commerce has signed several agreements for the sale of goods. Although the commission for each sale is not much, it adds up to a lot, which is equivalent to one-third of the commission for this delivery task, which made him wonder whether he should The business shifts to the animal pen.
Today, as usual, he began to inquire whether the Ice Bear Chamber of Commerce team was coming at the various reception points of the animal pen. After getting all negative answers, he turned around and went back to his room to continue the transaction agreement that was not completed yesterday. To complete, this job was taken three days ago, because at that time both sides said that there was no need to hurry, so he put this job to the end.
Just when Lagrom had just finished writing the last agreement and started the overall inspection, a staff member from the reception desk hurriedly came to his temporary residence and told him that the people from the Ice Bear Chamber of Commerce had arrived. Just followed with a slightly puzzled addition, saying: "However, there are only two people and a pack beast. They look like a lone trader, not like someone from the Ice Bear Merchant Guild."
"Didn't you guys check their IDs?" Lagrom immediately folded the drafted agreement and put it in the expansion belt, then asked.
"I checked, there is no problem," the staff member answered immediately, and added: "However, I am worried that I have made a mistake. Even if I checked the identity, I still sent someone to find a few old people who are familiar with the Ice Bear Chamber of Commerce. Identify them."
Hearing the staff's words, Lagrom didn't ask any more questions. He walked out of the room quickly, and then trotted through the thick snow, rushing towards the animal pen that the staff told him that he must Before the arrival of the few old people who are familiar with the Ice Bear Chamber of Commerce, take the goods away to avoid extravagance.
Soon Lagrom came to the gate of the animal pen. After showing his identity to the guard at the door, he walked in. At this time, he happened to see the pack beast standing in the center of the animal pen, and more What is correct is a piece of cloth with a special symbol on the basket on both sides of the pack beast. This symbol is an identity symbol, which means that the contents of the two baskets are the goods he wants to take away.
Seeing this, he stepped forward directly, and said to a middle-aged man who was sitting on a chair beside the pack beast, with a completely different appearance and temperament from the northern polar people, and said, "I am the recipient of these goods, UU reading wwwww .uukanshu.com This is my proof, let's hurry up and complete the delivery of the goods!"
As he spoke, he saw that he took out a brief agreement document and handed it to the man.
The man looked up at him, did not accept the agreement, but pointed to another Northlander with obvious characteristics not far away, indicating that the person he wanted to hand over was there.
Seeing that he had made the wrong person, Lagrom was not ashamed. He immediately walked up to the Northlander who might be a member of the Ice Bear Chamber of Commerce, and said the words of handover again.
The Northlander took over the agreement, and then took out another copy himself, compared it with the agreement, and after confirming that it was correct, he signaled to Lagrom to move the things away. As for the person in charge of the animal stall here Before the supervisor could speak, he was blocked by the money Lagrom took out.
All seemed to be going well, and just as Lagrom called for the contents of the cargo basket to be taken out and transported away, some people stood in the door of the stable and offered to inspect the shipment.
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